Crude Chronicles or Staffing Organizations

Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador

Author: Suzana Sawyer

Ecuador is the third-largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States. As the source of this oil, the Ecuadorian Amazon has borne the far-reaching social and environmental consequences of a growing U.S. demand for petroleum and the dynamics of economic globalization it necessitates. Crude Chronicles traces the emergence during the 1990s of a highly organized indigenous movement and its struggles against a U.S. oil company and Ecuadorian neoliberal policies. Against the backdrop of mounting government attempts to privatize and liberalize the national economy, Suzana Sawyer shows how neoliberal reforms in Ecuador led to a crisis of governance, accountability, and representation that spurred one of twentieth-century Latin America's strongest indigenous movements.

Through her rich ethnography of indigenous marches, demonstrations, occupations, and negotiations, Sawyer tracks the growing sophistication of indigenous politics as Indians subverted, redeplo yed, and, at times, capitulated to the dictates and desires of a transnational neoliberal logic. At the same time, she follows the multiple maneuvers and discourses that the multinational corporation and the Ecuadorian state used to circumscribe and contain indigenous opposition. Ultimately, Sawyer reveals that indigenous struggles over land and oil operations in Ecuador were as much about reconfiguring national and transnational inequality -- that is, rupturing the silence around racial injustice, exacting spaces of accountability, and rewriting narratives of national belonging -- as they were about the material use and extraction of rain-forest resources.

Table of Contents:

I	National narratives
1	Amazonian imaginaries	27
2	Crude excesses	57
II	Petroleum politics
3	Neoliberal ironies	91
4	Corporate antipolitics	118
III	Raced realities
5	Contested terrain	149
6	Liberal legal-scapes	182
	Closing : a plurinational space	211

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Staffing Organizations

Author: Herbert G Heneman III

Heneman and Judge's book is based on a comprehensive staffing model. The model has been revised somewhat in this edition to reflect the growing importance of staffing strategy and to incorporate retention management into the staffing domain. Components of the model includestaffing models and strategy, staffing support systems (legal compliance, planning, job analysis), core staffing systems (recruitment, selection, employment), and staffing system and retention management. Up-to-date research and business practices are the trademarks of this market leading text. In-depth applications (cases and exercises) at the end of chapters provide students with skill-building and practice in key staffing activities and decision-making.

Table of Contents:

Staffing Organizations, 5e
Part One; The Nature of Staffing
Chapter 1 Staffing Models and Strategy
Part Two; Support Activities
Chapter 2 Legal Compliance
Chapter 3 Planning
Chapter 4 Job Analysis and Rewards
Part Three; Staffing Activities: Recruitment
Chapter 5 External Recruitment
Chapter 6 Internal Recruitment
Part Four; Staffing Activities: Selection
Chapter 7 Measurement
Chapter 8 External Selection I
Chapter 9 External Selection II
Chapter 10 Internal Selection
Part Five; Staffing Activities: Employment
Chapter 11 Decision Making
Chapter 12 Final Match
Part Six; Staffing System and Retention Management
Chapter 13 Staffing System Management
Chapter 14 Retention Management